Ethnological Sketch of the Angmagsaik Eskimo. 15 



A map was made of a part of the coast which had not been 

 mapped before. We named it "King Christian the IX Land". 



2. Physico-geographical investigations were made not only on 

 our journeys but also, more especially in our winter-quarters at 

 Nanortalik and Angmagsalik. 



The meteorological observations at Angmagsalik were of parti- 

 cular interest on account of the excellent situation of that place. 

 A meteorological station has afterwards been erected near this 

 place. 



Geological and botanical investigations were made on the East 

 coast, and considerable collections of minerals and plants were 

 taken home. 



3. Our experience was, that the East coast of Greenland was 

 not so inaccessible for journeys either by boat or ship as we had 

 previously supposed. 



It will generally be found possible by keeping inside the 

 drift-ice to make one's way along the coast in a boat in the months 

 of July and August. We, like all our predecessors, began to 

 journey too early in the year, and therefore had a great deal of 

 trouble with the ice. No one, however, has undertaken this journey 

 since us — now 25 years ago. 



The reason why the many previous attempts to reach this part 

 of the East coast by ships failed, is that the expeditions tried to 

 land too early in the year. A. E. Nordenskiöld succeeded in landing 

 in 1883 in the month of September. 



In the autumn it is always possible to bring a ship to land at 

 Angmagsalik without having much difficulty with the ice. In 1894 

 there was established a missionary and trading station, which is 

 visited once a year. This station served as a basis for the subse- 

 quent investigations of the northerly part of the East coast, so ably 

 made by Captain Amdrup, and in which King Christian IX Land 

 was extended up to Scoresby Sound, at a latitude of about 70 

 degrees. 



4. The Expedition travelled along and investigated the East 

 coast of Greenland as high north as it was conceivable that the 

 "Østerbygd" (Eastern settlement) of the old Scandinavian Northerners 

 might have been situated, without finding the slightest traces of 

 previous non-Eskimo habitations, and without coming across anything 

 in the appearance, customs, mode of life, legends etc. of the natives 

 to indicate previous connection with Europeans. • 



When Dr. K. J. V. Steenstrup simultaneously proved from 

 the study of old maps that the "Eastern settlement" must have 

 lain in the Julianehaab district, and how the erroneous idea that 



